You're the only one reporting them, and for that I owe you (see your new DonationCredits total). I found the problem. Note the odd quotation mark to the left of the word hairy in the screen shot below:

Searched and made sure I've eliminated all such funky quotation characters. If you'll let me know what your score was just before this bug nixxed your game, I'll manually set it on the online database.

I wish I had the talent to reverse engineer exe files. Right now my coding experience is pretty much limited to editing other people's AutoHotKey scripts for my own personal - and often rather specific - needs.

So, during my last game I had all three of the puzzles I had previously reported errors on show up; only to be done in finally by the number "8":

Numbers cause to me lose quite often, but that's not a bug, it's a feature.

Plus it's educational. You know, in case I ever need to know how many calories are in an Avocado.

Just think, if I had known how much Warner Communications had paid for the copyright to "Happy Birthday", I may have broken a million points.

Even as it stands, I doubt anyone will surpass your current score, to win the August high-scorer award. But we'll see...

As an aside, there are relatively few puzzles involving numbers. Less than 1%. One of the advantages of playing a lot, as you have, is that you become familiar with puzzles seen previously, allowing you to solve faster. You'll remember the one that stumped you, the next time you come across it

Welcome capitalh and davejc64 to the competition. If you have any questions that the program's Help file doesn't clear up for you, feel free to drop us a message here (I trust you're reading the DC boards, surely )

Here's a really odd one (okay, not odd, just not one you think of when beta-testing), but I can't get past the password. Either I fatfingered it when I set it up, or I just don't remember what it was. Still, I noticed that there is no way to reset it or retrieve it.

The easiest way to update is to run the existing installed version, and use "About"->"Update".

Please note the following from the Help text file:

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v 1.0.4.4 (released 8-11-2011)

fixes an exploit found by thancock: this update is required if you want to compete using the online high-score database. Although older versions will still submit highscores, the database will not retain them long-term because there is a PHP sweeper function that will periodically cull the database of scores submitted with older versions which have not had the exploit patched.

And what about the current scores already there? Is my 2nd place one going to get removed since it was an older version potentially taking me out of -> "The top-three high-scoring DC members will receive an additional prize from the site." as you posted on the first post?

And what about the current scores already there? Is my 2nd place one going to get removed since it was an older version potentially taking me out of -> "The top-three high-scoring DC members will receive an additional prize from the site." as you posted on the first post?

Sorry, I should have been clearer. No, your existing high-scores won't get culled. But any scores you may submit that exceed your existing high-score will be checked by the PHP script to ensure that they were submitted by a patched version of the program. If they weren't, eventually the sweeper will get them.

One of the advantages of playing a lot, as you have, is that you become familiar with puzzles seen previously, allowing you to solve faster. You'll remember the one that stumped you, the next time you come across it

And just when I was beginning to think that I had every puzzle memorized I get done in by a mayor:

And on that note, I think I'm going to not play for a while. It took me somewhere around an hour and a half to get that score, and I don't think I'm going to have that kind of time again for a while.

At program startup, the program checks online for a newer version. If it finds a newer available version, it offers the user the option (via Yes/No messagebox) to launch a download of the newer version in their default browser. This differs from previous releases, in which the newer version was downloaded directly by the Hangman program itself. By launching in the browser, I'm able to specify a special sort of link that my PHP ccount script can leverage to keep a more accurate count of the total number of downloads the program has received.

At program startup, if this is the nth time the program has executed on the user's machine (currently n = 12), the program will execute a one-time-only prompt for a donation -- which the user can easily opt to ignore. The is the only time the program will ever prompt regarding a donation. If the user responds negatively, s/he is still free at some future point to manually initiate a donation by using the Donate button in the About dialog.

And whadyaknow? I found a bug and have released the fix as version 1.0.4.6. You can view the text help file using the Help menu if you want to see the release notes. In case you don't want to have to look it up, though, here's a screenshot: